The fat man listening below was anxious, and hurriedly stood up and said to Lao Xu: "Then according to the chief of staff, how should we fight now, is it like a fire brigade, where there is a loophole, rush there to put out the fire and block it, isn't it tiring people to die If a certain place is broken by the large army of the Yellow Corps, then our encirclement and blocking line will not collapse immediately."
Zhou Wuyi heard what the fat man said, and hurriedly said to him: "Then Lao Liu, how should we fight according to your meaning?"
As soon as the fat man heard that Zhou Wu ordered his generals, he said honestly and unceremoniously: "We are now fewer than the Yellow Corps, I don't think it is possible to encircle and annihilate them, it will take two or three days for the large army to arrive here, at this time, if we pretend to be unable to eat the appearance of the Yellow Corps, retreat to the west, deliberately let the Yellow Corps retreat, deceive the Yellow Corps from the mill, and cut off their heads and tails on the way to ambush, I think it is still so reliable" The fat man thinks that the current situation cannot be in a hurry to attack the Yellow Corps, if the attack is urgent, After all, there are many more people than themselves, and the weapons and equipment are much better than themselves, so they can't surround them at all, so why bother to fight a war of encirclement and annihilation, deliberately flow out a way to survive, let the Yellow Corps take this road, and anyone who takes the opportunity to cut off and annihilate it halfway.
In recent years, the fat man has made great progress in command with Zhou Wu, and his tactics have gradually changed from the original regular face-to-face positional battle to the movement warfare that integrates guerrilla warfare methods, and he believes that under the current situation that the number of people is so small that of the Yellow Corps, it is not appropriate to storm the enemy in the village, otherwise not only will it not be able to surround the people, but it is very likely that the Yellow Corps will take the opportunity to counterattack.
Zhou Wu and Lao Xu listened to the fat man's suggestion, nodded again and again, and said to the brothers with a smile: "Lao Liu's idea is very good, everyone has anything to add, although it is said, the more the better."
Ge Sanmin was seriously injured and hospitalized and did not come to the meeting, Xiao Zheng and Huang Shuisheng nodded in agreement with the fat man's idea, Zhou Wu looked at Huang Shuisheng and them, and said to the brothers below: "Very good, just follow Lao Liu's method, order the second division stationed in the southwest of Nian Zhuang to advance ten kilometers to the south, and the rest of the troops are moving to the west of the Luoma Lake area, this is a smoke bomb, it is for the Yellow Corps in the Nian Zhuang to see them, if they follow closely to chase out, it is best for them, if they don't chase out, it will not hurt us, If the Yellow Corps does not begin to disperse and break through this evening, then they will basically not be able to run out of the palm of our East China Field Army, and there is no big difference between coming out to pursue us and continuing to stay in Lianzhuang, but they will be annihilated by our large army a few days later, and they will retreat to Zhangjiaji in front of Lianzhuang, and end at Luoma Lake in the west, these two places are the red line we must hold.
Otherwise, it is very likely that the Yellow Corps will run out at the right time.
Do the troops understand what I mean?"
"Understood."
The officers replied in unison.
"Okay, your division still has a very important task to complete, the location of Suqian on the south bank of Luoma Lake is very important, Qiu Maniac has already stretched to Suqian, and there is only one regiment of our local troops stationed in Suqian City, so I ask your division to rush to Luoma Lake as quickly as possible, find boats there, and cooperate with the local troops in Suqian City to block Qiu Maniac's team and ensure the safety of our flank."
Zhou Wu turned his head and said to Huang Shuisheng, who was good at fighting water wars, since Jiangbei retreated to Shandong, the boats that had been accumulated with great difficulty had been lost, and now Zhou Wu let him fight water battles by Luoma Lake again, Huang Shuisheng felt that he had no bottom in his heart, and where to find so many ships for a while "I know that this ship problem is difficult for you, but this time you are not required to fight the Kuomintang army on Luoma Lake, but to find a way to threaten the flank of Qiu Maniac's siege troops through Luoma Lake and prevent Qiu Maniac's team from passing through Luoma Lake, which your division should be able to do."
Zhou Wu did not ask Huang Shuisheng to go to Luoma Lake to fight a water fight, but found a boat to cross Luoma Lake, threaten the enemy's flank in the west, block Qiu Maniac's westward advance, and block his way to threaten Zhou Wu's flank Huang Shuisheng hurriedly nodded: "This is no problem, isn't it just for our division to block Qiu Maniac's attack on Suqian, let's set off immediately, ensure that we will stay and move the city, and never let the enemy advance west and north from Suqian and Luoma Lake, threatening the flank of the enemy's large army besieging Nianzhuang." ” Huang Shuisheng immediately returned to the station, took the team and set off to the west, the road was dusty, the scene was very spectacular, these scenes were discovered by the Kuomintang reconnaissance plane that was constantly circling in the sky, and immediately transmitted this information to the Xuzhou Suppression General Headquarters Du Chief, Du Commander did not understand why those around Nian Zhuang suddenly gave up the siege of the Yellow Corps and turned to the direction of Xuzhou The real intention, the intelligence of the reconnaissance plane in front came back, saying that the siege of Nian Zhuang had been withdrawn and marched in the direction of Luoma Lake in the west.
At this moment, Chief Du didn't understand the true intention even more, and he didn't care about the mill that could eat the Yellow Corps, but Zhou Wu's main force suddenly marched towards the Luoma Lake in the west, what did they want to do, could they not withstand the fierce breakthrough counterattack of the Yellow Corps, could not support the evacuation, or had other hidden circumstances At this time, Qiu Maniac, who was marching in the direction of Suqian, sent a telegram to Chief Du, saying that he was about to attack Suqian City on the edge of Luoma Lake with a large army of the corps, and that there was only one local regiment guarding in Suqian, and it would be easy for the corps to take Suqian, so that he could quickly threaten Zhou Wu who was storming the Yellow Corps of Nian Zhuang from the flank from behind, and Zhou Wu would definitely draw troops to rescue him in order to ensure that he was not surrounded and annihilated by the corps, so that the Yellow Corps could calmly break out of the Nian Zhuang.
After receiving the telegram from Qiu Maniac, Chief Du realized that Zhou Wu's troops were going west to guard against Qiu Maniac, so it was explained that Zhou Wu, who was in danger in Suqian, was worried that the flank would be besieged, so he had to transfer the troops besieging Nian Zhuang to the west of Luoma Lake to block Qiu Maniac's team, and the Yellow Corps there had the possibility of taking the opportunity to break through to the south Chief Du laughed, and said to the generals under him: "It's really another village, originally I thought that the Yellow Corps was trapped by Zhou Wu in the Nian Zhuang is helpless, but now it seems that there is still a line of vitality to break through, immediately send a telegram to the Yellow Corps, asking him to take the opportunity to scatter and break through to the south, the opportunity must not be lost, the time will not come again, and the Yellow Corps must be strictly ordered to break through to the south."
At the same time that Commander Du's telegram was transmitted to Commander Huang in Nian Zhuang, there was also such a telegram in the headquarters of the East China Field Army, Commander Li saw it, his eyebrows were locked, and he felt that Zhou Wu's situation was in danger, so he hurriedly forwarded this telegram to Zhou Wu, Zhou Wu was already on the way to Luoma Lake at the moment, and after receiving this telegram from the commander, he immediately called the commander back, saying that this was his own trick to lure the enemy, and it didn't matter if the Yellow Corps couldn't get out, there were tricks waiting for him, Now the most important thing is Suqian City south of Luoma Lake, if it is conquered by Qiu Maniac's large army and blockades the Luoma Lake area, then his flank will be completely exposed to the enemy, and maybe he will be surrounded by Qiu Maniac The commander was relieved, and immediately ordered the two divisions rushing to Suqian to speed up their march and catch up at all costs, the key to the victory or defeat of the battle to encircle and annihilate the Yellow Corps east of Xuzhou depends on Suqian here, and if they arrive and defend the retreat, then the Qiu madman will not be able to go west and go north to cut off Zhou Wu's flank, otherwise the problem will be serious, not only will Zhou Wu's tens of thousands of horses be threatened by encirclement, but even the entire East China Field Army will be implicated, and it can even affect the war situation on the entire Huaihai front.
So, the Kuomintang reconnaissance plane flying in the sky saw the following strange phenomenon, the two troops were desperately marching in the direction of Luoma Lake, and a forward division of the Qiu Corps was also desperately rushing towards Suqian City, of course, the team of the Qiu Corps with car wheels was moving fast, and before the team arrived at the Luoma Lake, a forward division of the Qiu Corps had rushed to Baoan Township, which was only 20 kilometers away from Suqian, and here they encountered a small unit's resistance.
After receiving the order from their superiors to defend Suqian, the regimental commander who defended the city hurriedly sent this company to dig field fortifications overnight at the confluence of the Lin River and the Beijiang River in Baoan Township, waiting for the arrival of the forward division of the Qiu Corps.
The commander of the forward division of the Qiu Corps was surnamed Wen, and his personality was similar to that of his immediate boss Qiu Maniac, and he also belonged to the type of rushing and ramming in battle, and when he saw that the front was blocked by a small unit at the confluence of the two rivers, this division commander Wen immediately ordered the troops to launch a group charge of the whole battalion to the position under the cover of artillery fire.
But the terrain here makes him unable to show his strength, this is at the confluence of the Lin River and the Beijiang River, full of ravines and ravines of the water network, a battalion of four or five hundred brothers is placed there, the fast ones are about to rush to the position, the slow ones are still halfway, all the small-caliber artillery they bring, the artillery preparation time is not much, the caliber of the shells is too small, for those who have dug the fortifications early, these artillery preparations are useless, and when Division Commander Wen discovers these problems, Due to the inconsistent pace of the attack, coupled with the desperate resistance of the team defending the position, the first wave of attack, Commander Wen's team was beaten down, not only could not attack, but also lost hundreds of soldiers, so angry that Master Wen scolded his subordinates, and after a short rest, he reorganized the attack team and launched an attack on the blocking position in a dispersed attack formation t1706231537: